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I am getting an 'access is denied' error when I attempt to delete a folder that is not empty. I used the following command in my attempt: os.remove("/folder_name").
What is the most effective way of removing/deleting a folder/directory that is not empty?
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To remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, -r . Directories that are removed with the rmdir command cannot be recovered, nor can directories and their contents removed with the rm -r command.
The non-empty directory means the directory with files or subdirectories. We can delete the directory by using the Delete() method of the Directory class.
import shutil shutil.rmtree('/folder_name') Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.
By design, rmtree fails on folder trees containing read-only files. If you want the folder to be deleted regardless of whether it contains read-only files, then use
shutil.rmtree('/folder_name', ignore_errors=True) From the python docs on os.walk():
# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top', # assuming there are no symbolic links. # CAUTION: This is dangerous! For example, if top == '/', it # could delete all your disk files. import os for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False): for name in files: os.remove(os.path.join(root, name)) for name in dirs: os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name)) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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